The Ottawa Citizen du lieu suivant : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 33

Rideau Hall asbestos to be removed, E4 LIFE STORY, E10 RELIGION EXPERTS, Ell WEATHER, E12 THE UPBEAT Dedicated to animals, an Ottawa pet store helps out the underdog rescuers, E9 i 1 1 Editor. Jordan Timm, 613-726-5902 cityottawacitizen.com SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2012 NEWS TIPS: 613-596-6397 OR 0TTAWACITIZEN.COM THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, SECTION Hurt, chilled pair found on remote trai 1 Rescuers track down man, woman in Gatineau Park after midnight weather. Beaudin tried to light a fire but his matches were wet. He and his friend gave the couple dry clothes and some food and water. Although the rescuers knew the way back to the main trail, by this time the man and woman were too weak to make the three-hour hike back to the parking lot Beaudin and his friend decided to stay.

"My buddy and I had a choice and we chose to stay up with them," Beaudin said. As a trained search-and-res-cue volunteer, Beaudin knew what to do. Beaudin, who by day works in technology, called 911 and was able to give dispatchers the stranded party's global positioning system (GPS) coordinates from his cellphone. At about 1:30 a.m., he communicated with the MRC des Collines police and NCC using amateur radio, he said. See RESCUE on page E2 began hiking Wolf Loop themselves, calling out for the lost couple.

The pair searched for three hours in the dead of night along debris-covered trails before finding the couple at about 12:30 am "The trail was really hard to follow," he said. The man had injured his leg and the woman was feeling the effects of the minus-15 end of Meech Lake, had been closed by the National Capital Commission because of the danger of downed trees and falling ice left over from a storm that hit the region on Dec. 21. But Beaudin said it can be almost impossible in winter to see which trails are open and which are closed. Beaudin and his friend Gatineau Park at about 9:30 p.m.

Thursday when he came across two people in the P13 parking lot. They told him that their friends, a 43-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman, had become lost while hiking on the Wolf Loop, trail No. 62. The trail, in a steep and rugged section of the 360-square-kilometre park near the west TREE-TOPPER ROBIN LEVINSON A couple of adventurers were saved by an off-duty rescue worker after they became stranded in Gatineau Park on Thursday night in the middle of a snowstorm. Adrian Beaudin, a member of the volunteer group Search and Rescue Global 1, was snowshoeing with a friend in Integrity package good, as far as it goes JOANNE CHIANELLO One of the most forward-looking initiatives that Mayor Jim Watson has instigated in his term is the so-called integrity package.

The lobbyist registry, which came into effect last September, is far from perfect, but it's still a solid first step toward greater transparency in city business. The rest of the integrity policy the gift registry, a code of conduct for councillors, and guidelines for office expenses is due in late January, likely the first major item that council will deal with in the new year. But can the new policy make truly transparent all the goings-on in the offices of our elected officials? Not likely. Take the case of the mayor and Brian Guest At the start of his term, Watson ordered his annual office budget cut by 10 per cent or just over $80,000 about the cost of a full-time employee but nowhere did he have to declare that taxpayers were footing the bill for one of his confidants to work in the halls of power. That's because Guest doesn't work directly for the mayor's office but was hired by the city's bureaucracy to work on the light-rail file, seemingly indefinitely.

Guest a longtime liberal insider, was on the mayor's transition team, has worked on Watson's speeches and on his first two budgets. While Guest was advising Plas-co Energy during that company's contract negotiations with the city in the fall of 2011, Guest was also consulting for the city on the 2012 draft budget In addition, Guest and his firm Boxfish Group have been hired as consultants for the light rail office, virtually indefinitely. Since 2011, Boxfish has been awarded contracts worth $630,000 to do vague consulting work for the light-rail implementation office, which employs 28 people. See CHIANELLO on page E2 i Tr lv fi its Choices galore for ringing in New Year Free, family friendly and festive events will shepherd in 2013 JULIA BURPEE This New Year's Eve, Otta-wans can choose from a variety of events some new, some old, but all promising to be free, family-friendly, and festive, with lights and music. One new event is atradition-al Scottish-style street party, called Hogmanay, which will be held at City Hall, starting at 5 p.m.

Monday. The night will kick off with live Celtic music and Highland dancing, including free dance instruction for people attending, with children welcome, said organizer John Ivison of Ottawa's Scottish Society. Kids can join in the festivities more easily as New Year's celebrations will peak early, at 7 p.m., to mark midnight in Scotland, says Ivison. Free live music will continue throughout the night indoors and outdoors on a stage next to the Rink of Dreams, which will be open for skating. With just days before the party, the surprise headlining act has been announced: The Barra MacNeils of Cape Breton, who will ring in the New Year, local time, by singing the traditional Scottish song Auld Lang Syne.

Fireworks will follow. See FESTIVITIES on page E2 Good Hope shelter on Murray Street; Watt was in jail. Not surprising, with their admissions of substance abuse appearing in the Citizen, the Children's Aid Society gained temporary custody of the baby immediately after she was born. Though Watt said at the time the baby was healthy, there were concerns that the infant might be suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome and possibly effects from the mother's use of drugs, which included crack cocaine. However, Watt said they were confident they would get their baby back, especially as they were off booze and drugs, and the Salvation Army had found an apartment for them in the Billings Bridge area.

See ADAMI on page E5 SAVE UP TO 70 OFF Jacob Jablonski jumps on a makeshift ski slope in Orleans on Friday. The slope should get plenty of action over the next few days, as flurries and sub-zero temperatures remain in the forecast. THE PUBLIC CITIZEN life again runs off rails JEAN LEVACOTTAWA CITIZEN WAYNE CUDDINGTONOTTAWA CITIZEN Pootoogook and then-partner streets and expecting a baby. circumstances. Pootoogook gave birth on a washroom floor at the Shepherds of J- 1 i I IS, bK ij I I a Inuit artist's her coloured-pencil drawings of Inuit life in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, and her common-law partner, William Watt, readily admitted to months of alcohol and drug abuse.

Pootoogook appeared to have fallen off the face of the earth some time ago, but in fact, she had retreated to her inner demons. But when she emerged with Watt, whom she met in 2011, they said they were now clean, were going to stay that way, and were looking forward to a fresh start and raising a family. Watt did most of the talking and seemed more convincing than Pootoogook. Acclaimed HUGH ADAMI They came to this newspaper last July, looking for help because a baby was on the way and they needed their own place after living outdoors and in shelters for more than a year. Artist Annie Pootoogook, who rose to international acclaim about a decade ago for fa i (T fOLANCO LEATHER rURNITURE Last July, Inuit artist Annie Bill Watt were living on the Their baby girl, Napachie Marie, was born in September, though under horrible EVERY LIVING ROOM, EVERY DINING ROOM, EVERY BEDROOM, HOME ACCESSORIES, RUGS.

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